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Trump’s “baked in” bigotry – by David R. Lurie

It is no coincidence that, as his 2024 presidential campaign comes to a close, Donald Trump is both coming out as an overt fascist and presiding over a Republican Party suffused with conspiratorial antisemitism.

Fascism and anti-Jewish bigotry have been integrally linked since the 1930s. Over the past several years, Trump has so successfully remade the GOP as a fascist political party that a leading “mainstream” Republican governor greeted the recent news that Trump is a secret admirer of Adolf Hitler as a non-event, offhandedly declaring on CNN that it’s “baked in” to his appeal.

While Trump has declared himself to be the “protector” of the Jewish community at a time of rising antisemitism, he’s also spent the last eight years regularizing antisemitic conspiracism within the GOP and welcoming Jew haters and other bigots into the party.

In recent days, Trump, along with his cronies and followers, are making their extremism and bigotry more overt. This is particularly true where their rhetoric about Jews is concerned.

Trump recently railed that Jewish Americans are “cursed” and warned that Jews will bear “a lot of blame” if he loses the presidential election. He has also more than suggested that his support of Israel’s current government requires the quid pro quo of political support from Jewish American voters…

 

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